The fat man and I were preparing to eat roast duck with the breeze in the park, but the white cat that the fat man brought back from Shenzhen somehow appeared in front of us and kept preventing us from eating roast duck.

As a result, I really found something wrong, and I suspected that the roast duck had been dropped. So I told the fat man about the problem he had found, and when he heard me, he was first surprised, and then asked me in disbelief: "Ducks don't all look the same, how can you see the difference?" ”

I opened the plastic bag and said to the fat man: "You don't remember, when we bought roast duck, we wrapped the duck in kraft paper, you said that there would be no air and water, and the duck skin would be crispy after eating." Look at the roast duck in this bag now, there is no brown paper wrapped in the outside, and it seems that it has been put for a long time, the skin is soaked and soft and wrinkled, this is definitely not the two roast ducks we bought, it must have been dropped by someone. ”

The fat man stomped his foot angrily after hearing this, and stumbled and said, "Which bastard, what is the turtle ghost son doing when he drops the bag to eat?" ”

I thought to myself that this was not that simple, that there must be something wrong with the duck, and said to the fat man, "Don't eat it." ”

The fat man reluctantly threw away the duck leg and picked up the cat. I grimaced and said, "Let's go, find a place to do the experiment." ”

The fat man and I were just suspicious that the roast duck had been tampered with, but we weren't very sure, but when we saw the Rippy wild dog foaming at the ground, we couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and we thought with palpitations, it seems that someone really wanted to poison us.

When the fat man saw the death of the wild dog, his fiery temper suddenly couldn't help it, and he immediately stood in place and roared, shouting angrily to the surroundings, "Which king is the eight, the turtle and turtle son." Dare to poison Lao Tzu's food and give you a fat grandfather to get out. ”

I pulled the fat man's sleeve and said, "What are you yelling about!" Take a good look around, where is there half a figure here? Besides, if someone secretly poisons you, they don't intend to do it with you openly, and it's useless for you to shout and cut your throat. The key is who wants our lives, I asked myself if I haven't offended anyone, is it you kid, which girl has been abandoned from the beginning, and people have come to you for revenge. ”

The fat man glared at me, "When is this all right, you still have the heart to joke." People want our lives, and you have a few lives to give. ”

I said with a nonchalant face: "We are blessed with great fortune and great creation, but the little ghost does not dare to hook, and the prince of Yama does not dare to accept it, how can it be so easy to lightly braid." ”

After speaking, I glanced around quietly, and then whispered to the fat man: "It's not safe outside, let's go home first." ”

Holding the cat, we immediately turned around and left the crime scene, and entered the door of the store in the other place, and the fat man suddenly asked me, "Did you put away the golden statue that Master wanted you to bring back?" ”

I patted my head, "Look at my memory, you didn't mention it and I forgot it." Before I went out just now, I locked it in the cabinet in my room, but I didn't put it in the master's dark room. To be on the safe side, I put it in Master's secret room. ”

The fat man grabbed me and said, "You show it to me first, anyway, it's boring to be idle now, why don't you study and see what secrets this golden statue hides?" ”

I promised, "Okay, I'll get the cat a live fish to eat later, it saved our lives today, and we have to reward it." ”

The fat man also said with some gratitude: "This cat has spirituality, I have to be kind to it in the future." ”

As we spoke, we walked into the old house behind us, completely forgetting about the poisoning we had just done. When I opened the lock on the cabinet in the house, I was immediately dumbfounded, only to see that the cabinet was empty, except for a few photos hidden by the fat man, the singer pictorial with his thighs exposed, and the baggage of the golden statue was completely gone. I hurriedly rummaged inside, but the empty cabinet was clear at a glance, and it was impossible to hide it inside, so I could only ask the fat man with a blank face: "Did you hide it?" Don't joke with me, take it out. ”

The fat man raised his hand and said with a stern face: "I swear to Chairman Mao, I didn't even move a single hair of the golden statue, did you not put it in the cabinet, but put it somewhere else, I remembered it for a while, you can look for it again." ”

The house I live in is such a big place, and all of a sudden it was turned upside down by me and the fat man, and even the fat man's New Year's money hidden in the crack of the wall when he was a child was found, but there is still no trace of the golden statue.

The fat man couldn't help muttering: "What a hell, how come the good golden statue is in the sealed cabinet, disappearing out of thin air, has it become air?" ”

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and thought: The golden statue is not the Monkey King, where did these magical changes come from. It must have been stolen by someone, and I suddenly thought of the person who poisoned the roast duck and killed the two of us, maybe it had something to do with the theft of the golden statue. This mysterious man's skills are so good, he does things completely unnoticed, and in broad daylight, under the noses of me and the fat man, two big living people, he does it so well that people don't notice it at all. If it weren't for the vigilant civet cat to save us, we would have been dead on the street at this time, so no one found out that the golden statue was stolen, which means that the two things must be inseparable.

And to be able to find an ancient house where a stranger lives, and dare to steal things in it, must not be easy. If this man really wants our lives, he can't prevent it. The situation of me and the fat man can be said to be extremely dangerous. Thinking of this, my heart suddenly became uneasy.

When the fat man saw that I looked nervous, he asked me, "The golden statue is lost, what should I do next?" ”

I comforted him and said, "Maybe Master came back, and when he saw that we were not there, he took the golden statue by himself, it's okay, don't worry too much." In the past two days, we will stay at home and wait for Master to come back, and don't go out and run around. ”

Although the fat man promised on his lips, it is estimated that he was also muttering up and down in his heart.

It's only been the first day I've been back, and with so much going on, I'm very unsettled, and I feel as if something bad is going to happen. In the entire city of Beijing, there are few people who dare to provoke my master, and I don't know which hairy boy who doesn't open his eyes dares to fight me and the fat man's idea. We used to collect antiques for business, although we didn't have a clear conscience, and we didn't dare to steal gold statues to the point where someone wanted to kill us.

At the thought of the golden statue, I slapped my thigh violently, and the fat man was startled. I said to the frightened man, "Fatty, you said that the person who stole the golden statue could be Boss He?" He knew that I had brought the statue back. ”

The fat man said with great disdain: "As far as Boss He's waste material is concerned, he definitely doesn't have this ability." ”

I agree with the fat man's statement, but I think that He Fat Man does not have this ability, it does not mean that the people around him do not have this ability, the figure of Secretary Chen, who seems to be loyal and honest, but is actually treacherous, appeared in front of my eyes.

After being poisoned and losing the gold statue, the fat man and I didn't dare to go out casually anymore, and stayed in the antique shop, and the three days passed with boredom.

The fat man took the cat with him every day and named the cat "Lucky Star". This cat sleeps during the day and sleeps at night, except for eating, almost awake time, so fat that I can't walk, I pinched the fat on the cat's body and said: "You changed your name to "Lucky Pig". ”

The fat man held the cat and spun around on the ground, and finally couldn't help but say to me, "Lao Zheng, Master doesn't know when he will come back." Now there is no business coming to the door, and it is too panicked to stay at home every day, or let's go out for a walk. ”

I sat on the chair, didn't lift my eyelids, and said lazily: "You forgot about poisoning, and you dare to go out." ”

The fat man immediately walked up to me, leaned up to the cat's paw and said to me, "It's too boring, let's go to the Red Star Antique Market, only if we don't eat outside, it's fine." Besides, the home is not necessarily safe, and a place with a lot of people is safer. ”

I can't stand the fat man's persuasion, and it makes sense if I think about it, with the ability of that mysterious man, if he really wants to kill the two of us, even if we hide in the mouse hole, it's useless. And I was also so bored that I wanted to go out and breathe. So he stood up and said to the fat man with a smile, "Then let's go out for a walk." ”

The fat man immediately smiled and said, "Let's go." ”

The fat man can't let go of the cat now, and takes it with him everywhere he goes. So, the two of them, a cat, came to the Red Star Antique Market to wander around.

Although it is said to be a market, it is actually a street that connects east and west, with a small winding passage in the middle, and the ground on both sides is full of all kinds of old things. Piles of copper coins, tin pots, clay pots, gold and silver utensils, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, all kinds of jade jewelry, carved cabinets, painted screens, all kinds of landscape celebrity calligraphy and paintings, silver dollars of the Republic of China, Chairman Mao's portrait medals, everything you can think of old things, all here are there. In these messy things, if you want to find the real thing and the good thing, it depends on whether you have a pair of fiery eyes.

Nowadays, the technology of making fake and old is becoming more and more superb, and the Xibei goods (new things are deliberately made into old antique objects. ), cold look, the industry is easy to look at (the jargon of collecting antiques, refers to the wrong look, receiving fake things. ）。 The fat man and I don't look down on general things, and I love to come here to practice my eyesight when I have nothing to do, and by the way to see if I can pick up the leak (referring to receiving good things cheaply, it means picking up cheap things. ）。

The two of us walked around enough, and didn't find anything eye-catching, seeing that it was time for lunch, and planned to find a restaurant nearby to pay tribute to the Five Organs Temple.

So, we started walking towards the east exit, but we didn't go far and found that the front was crowded with people, and it was very bustling and noisy. The fat man and I squeezed forward while shouting, "Let's go, let's go." "It wasn't until we squeezed into the middle that we knew that someone was arguing with Zhang Fei, the reason was that in the antique market, you can usually set up a stall casually, and whoever occupies the seat first is considered to be whoever. However, in order to facilitate the management of order, everyone has set up an unwritten rule, that is, when the market opens at eight o'clock, everyone begins to set up stalls in their previous positions, and at nine o'clock there is no one in the stall, and other retail investors can occupy this stall. No, the original stall owner was delayed because of something, so they didn't come until noon, and they quarreled with the stall now.

I looked at the excitement curiously, and found that the fat man was not beside me, and hurriedly squeezed the crowd, and saw that he was already holding the cat and standing at the exit waiting for me.

When the fat man saw me coming out, he said to me impatiently, "I've been waiting outside for a long time, why did you come out?" It's not a big girl taking a bath, what's there to see. ”

I smiled and said to him, "Whose big girl is bathing on the street?" Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and find a place to eat, I'm so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back. ”

After we finished talking, we went to a sauce and meat restaurant next to the Red Star Market, and after we were full of wine and food, the fat man complained to me while picking his teeth: "If you don't come to his house to eat in the future, your elbows won't rot, and your teeth will be stuffed." ”

I looked at the empty plate in front of me and said, "You have eaten up every elbow, and when you finish eating, you don't like it, what did you do just now?" ”

When I saw that I had almost finished eating, I turned around and beckoned the waiter to come and pay the bill. As a result, when I dug into my pocket, I didn't find the money, but I found a note. Surprised, he unfolded the crumpled note, and saw that it was printed with black ink, and a few square words were printed: "The other half of the map is here".

Immediately stunned in place. Overwhelmed.